May 3,The editorial board of popular ‘news blog’ producing news stuffs and
articles for and by Bhutanese refugees, has declared the closure for indefinite
period publishing a press release.
A release posted on the
bhutanusa.com cited, what they call as “technical and managerial issues” as the
reason to declare the closure of the site.
“The reasons arise out of the
fact that the time period of the registration of this domain has run out and
the web page designer (Himalayan
Web Info. Pvt. Ltd, Kathmandu, Nepal) that was entrusted with
the task of developing the site to its final form and hosting it with a
different domain, globalbhutan.com, cheated us badly letting us not to blog
about what we have been doing for nearly one and a half years.”
However Himalayan Web Info. Pvt.
Ltd has not yet responded the issue.
Statement reads,” Back in 2008,
we conceived the concept of having a place in the internet to blog about the
tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and a vast majority of Bhutanese folks all
around the globe. Well, we came up on the final day of December 2008 with the
idea to have a web site on the issue, in fact the first of all diaspora sites
for Bhutanese created over the past with different intellectual perspectives
and scholastic efforts. We do not claim ourselves to be so scholastic and
precisely perspective thinkers in regards to working with Butanusa.com but we
did have a successful story in the past with an ever-increasing influx of
visitors, viewers, well-wishers and above all, our advisors who, in some way
served as beacon for our responsibility-laden ship to head its
way surviving the Doldrums on a vast ocean of
socio-political criticism and diverse ideological Tsunamis. In a
nutshell, bhutanusa.com prospered well ever since it was conceived by resettled
Bhutanese from third countries.”
Statement further reads,” Our
thanks are due to our valued visitors, our senior Bhutanese reporters,
Bhutanese intellectuals who supported us during hard times and above all, our
team members, who, amidst the busy and hectic schedules of their daily living,
worked devotedly to bring things updated on a regular and timely manner.
Rationally speaking, we always stand hand in hand working together for a common
cause of peace and happiness for people who are deprived of it. We still have a
long way to go together and not to end with this.”
According to the statement, the
site, Bhutanusa.com will be completely down from the mid-night of May 8.
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